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comparative philosophical perspectives

edited by Ulrich Krohs and Peter Kroes

Cambridge, Mass. MIT Press

x, 302 p. : ill. ; 24 cm

Vienna series in theoretical biology

Includes bibliographical references and index , Introduction Philosophical perspectives on organismic and artifactual functions / Ulrich Krohs and Peter Kroes Bridging functions of organisms and artifacts Changing the mission of theories of teleology : dos and donʹts for thinking about function / Mark Perlman Biological and cultural proper functions in comparative perspective / Beth Preston How biological, cultural, and intended functions combine / Fran�coise Longy On unification : taking technical functions as objective (and biological functions as subjective) / Pieter E. Vermaas Functions and normativity Functions and norms / Peter McLaughlin The inherent normativity of functions in biology and technology / Maarten Franssen Conceptual conservatism : the case of normative functions / Paul Sheldon Davies Ecological restoration : from functional descriptions to normative prescriptions / Andrew Light Functions and classification Being for : a philosophical hypothesis about the structure of functional knowledge / Giacomo Romano Realism and artifact kinds / Marzia Soavi A device-oriented definition of functions of artifacts and its perspectives / Yoshinobu Kitamura and Riichiro Mizoguchi Evolutionary perspectives The open border : two cases of concept transfer from organisms to artifacts / Wybo Houkes Innovation and population / Tim Lewens The cost of modularity / Ulrich Krohs Technical artifacts, engineering practice, and emergence / Peter Kroes.

AU Krohs, Ulrich , AU Kroes, Peter, 1950-

QH

331

.F897

2009

2008031061